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Richard Mulcahy. Richard James Mulcahy (10 May 1886 – 16 December 1971) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and army general who served as Minister for Education from 1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957, Minister for the Gaeltacht from June 1956 to October 1956, Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1948, Leader of Fine Gael from 1944 to 1959 ...
May 9, 2024 · Richard James Mulcahy (born May 10, 1886, Waterford, County Waterford, Ire.—died Dec. 16, 1971, Dublin) was the chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and afterward leader (1944–59) of Fine Gael (“Irish Race”), the major political party in opposition to Eamon de Valera’s Fianna Fáil (“Soldiers of Destiny”).
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May 10, 2022 · Richard Mulcahy, both minister for defence, and commander-in-chief of the National Army, asked the cabinet to acquiesce to a collective decision on the executions of the four named prisoners as a ...
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Richard James Mulcahy (Irish: Risteárd Séamus Ó Maolchatha) (10 May 1886 – 16 December 1971) was an Irish politician, army general and commander in chief, leader of Fine Gael and Cabinet Minister. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising, served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence and.
Jun 17, 2020 · Padraig O’Caoimh’s new biography of Richard Mulcahy is a labor of love – the product of a decades of research into the beliefs, philosophy, and personal and political evolution of one of Ireland’s most important but understudied (and, the author might argue, misunderstood) figures. O’Caoimh focuses on the 1913-1924 period, covering ...
Jan 1, 2022 · Like Rory O'Connor, Richard Mulcahy symbolises the bitter divisions of the Irish Civil War. During the Easter Rising, Mulcahy was second-in-command of a unit which defeated the Royal Irish ...
Nov 4, 2019 · In Richard Mulcahy: From the Politics of War to the Politics of Peace, Pádraig Ó Caoimh expertly explores the awkward, often competitive, relationships Mulcahy had with Brugha, Cosgrave, de Valera, O’Higgins and Stack, and investigates the forging of the Irish national army out of the furnace of change brought about by the rise of ...
